{"product_id":"big-man-with-a-shovel-joe-amato-9780983632603","title":"Big Man with a Shovel","description":"\"If there could ever be anything like The Great American Novel, it might look like Big Man with a Shovel, an achievement that shows just how flexible and surprising the novel can be, and how, in the hands of a poet, it may still be the most incisive means we have for examining who we are as individuals and collectively as a society.\"Steve Tomasula, author of VAS: An Opera in Flatland\"The charm and power of Amato's book is in its mutability. Amato's text moves easily through working-class narration, American folklore, high academic palaver, war narrative, editorial splashback, history and ephemera, in an intelligent, erudite, and passionate novel.\" Steve Katz, author of Creamy \u0026amp; DeliciousA work of highly unconventional literary fiction, Big Man with a Shovel is a modern-day fable in which a powerful laborer befriends a young worker only to find himself pitted against a tyrannical foreman. Set in Upstate New York in 1965, this coming-of-age drama mixes folklore, myth, and metafiction in a story that is by turns playful, suspenseful, and mysterious. Available in paperback and Kindle editions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joe Amato\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 098363260X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780983632603\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steerage Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.41d","brand":"Joe Amato","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48441466061055,"sku":"9780983632603","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f7fb7fdc-0dbb-4eb1-b42f-669f7522d064.jpg?v=1777191084","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/big-man-with-a-shovel-joe-amato-9780983632603","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}